Is Thomas the Tank Engine Stalinist propaganda, or free-market pornography, or a series of books about trains with gray faces?
This year marks the seventieth anniversary of The Railway Series, which was, as far as I know, the first series of books to bring anthropomorphic trains to an English-speaking audience.… Read more »
Strange bedfellows and the Amtrak writers’ residency program
The names are in: Amtrak has announced the 24 recipients of its writers’ residency, which came close, but hasn’t outstripped, The Nation Cruise in the category of bizarre literary-corporate partnerships… Read more »
Barnard Zine Library launches MTA Residency
Remember when Amtrak announced its writer’s residency program this past March and the entire literary community went crazy? Remember then, when Amtrak dashed all our hopes and dreams by claiming… Read more »
Amtrak’s now accepting applications for its new Writer’s Residency… but it’s asking a lot
Last week, Evan Kindley published an examination of the Amtrak Writers Residency (a topic we covered a couple weeks ago) on n + 1. In his article, Kindley looks at The… Read more »
“Train time is found time”: Amtrak offers residencies for writers
This past week, the idea of writing residencies on Amtrak trains took off. On the 19th, Jessica Gross, Amtrak’s first writer-in-residence (for a few days, anyway), published a short essay… Read more »